@article{1475939,
      recid = {1475939},
      author = {Chansky, Dorothy,},
      title = {Losing it : staging the cultural conundrum of dementia and  decline in American theatre /},
      pages = {1 online resource (329 pages)},
      abstract = {This monograph is a study of American (U.S.) stage  representations of dementia mounted between 1913 and 2019.  Its imbricated strands are playtexts; audiences as both the  targets of the productions (artifacts in the marketplace)  and as anticipated determinants of legibility; and medical  science, both as has been (and is) known to researchers  and, more importantly, as it has been (and is) known to  educated general audiences. As the Baby Boom generation  finds itself solidly in the category of Senior, interest in  plays that address personal and social issues around  cognitive decline as a potentially frightening and  expensive experience, no two iterations of which are  identical, have, understandably, burgeoned. This study  shines a spotlight on eleven dementia plays that have been  produced in the United States over the past century, and  seeks, in the words of medical humanities scholar Anne  Whitehead, to open up, and to hold open, central ethical  questions of responsiveness, interpretation,  responsibility, complicity and care. Dorothy Chansky is a  Professor in the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech  University, USA, where she is a President's Excellence in  Research Professor. She was Founding Director of Tech's  Humanities Center and a past President of the American  Theatre and Drama Society as well as Vice President for  Publications of the American Society for Theatre Research.  Dorothys previous publications include Composing Ourselves:  The Little Theatre Movement and the American Audience  (2004) and Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining,  and Drama on the American Stage (2015). She was editor of  Theatre Annual: A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the  Americas from 2011-2016 and is a former Book Review Editor  of Theatre Journal. She is a current member of the  Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group of  the International Federation for Theatre Research.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1475939},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20902-4},
}